SAPINBAGE^. 421 



twigs spinescent, leaves glaucescent alternate or fasciculate smaU 

 linear entire ; flowers ^ in axillary 1- or few-flowered fasciculiform 

 bracteolate cymes (?). [Beloochistan?) 



61. Diplopeltis Endl.^ — Flowers polygamous irregular (nearly of 

 Koelreuteria ; sepals 5, subequal, glandulose-ciliate at margin, imbri- 

 cate. Petals 4, membranous, unguiculate, esquamate, imbricate. 

 Disk interior to periantb, very unequally oblique, dilated posteriorly 

 to a compressed excentric cupule (presenting tbe appearance of 2 un- 

 equally crenate lamellee). Stamens 8, subcentric (in female flower 

 small effete); filaments free declined glabrous; antbers introrse ver- 

 satile, 2-rimose. Germen (in male flower rudimentary) subcentric 

 2-3-lobed, 2-3-locular ; style erect, afterwards contorted, at apex 

 stigmatose scarcely or not dilated; ovules 2 in eacb cell, inserted in 

 the internal angle, oblique or subtransverse. Eruit capsular coria- 

 ceous depressed 2, 3-lobed, septicidally 2-3-coccous; cocci finally 

 dehiscing iawards, 1-2-spermous. Seeds oblique ; testa crustaceous ; 

 arU small; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo foliaceous very 

 spirally convolute. — Herbs, oftener shrubby at base, glandulose 

 pubescent ; branches slender ; leaves alternate simple unequally 

 laciuiately piunatifid ; flowers in terminal racemiform scorpioid 

 bracteate cymes. {South Australia.^) 



62. Erythrophysa E. Met.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite irregular 

 (nearly of Koelreuteria) ; receptacle widely cupuliform. Sepals 5, 

 inserted at margin, unequal, imbricate. Petals 4, unguiculate ; limb 

 thinly membranous subcorrugate venose ; base furnished within with 

 a very plicate-cristate scale. Disk large posterior widely cupular, 

 crenate at glandulose undulate margin ; androceum and gynseceum 

 very or slightly excentric anterior to cupule. Stamens 8, subequal 

 free, hypogynous ; anthers short introrse. Germen stipitate, 3- 

 locular ; style simple, at apex stigmatose scarcely capitellate ; ovules 

 2 in internal angle of cells ; one ascendent ; the other descendent. 

 Fruit large inflated; cells 3, submembranous, winged at back, 



1 Small, globose. ° Spec. 2. Lehm. PI. Preiss. ii. 235. — Mia. 



2 Spec.' 1. 8. trahuica Benth. loe. cit. — Boiss. PL Preiss. i. 223. — F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 12. — 

 Fl. Or. i. 946.— W ALP. Ann. iv. 374. Benia. Fl. Austral. \. 4>65.~£ot. Beg. (1139^. t. 



3 Hueg. Fntmi. 42.— Endl. Gen. u. 6625.— 69.— Walp. Bep. v. 367. 



B. H. &en. 396, n. 19. 6 Pl.Dreg.-'ETH-D^. Suppl. ii. 86.— B. H. Gen. 



* White, rosy or lilac, showy (somewhat re- 397, n. li—Erythrophi!a Akn. in Sooh. Journ. 



sembling those oi Schiztmthm), Sot. iii. 258. 



